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Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - India holds key in NATO's world view : "Washington genuinely seeks a NATO-India partnership. As NATO retools for the 21st century for new missions in Africa and South Asia, and as it advances across the Middle East toward the Indian Ocean, looking for global partnerships (numbering 20 at present), India inevitably figures in its agenda. This became starkly evident last month. "

Al Jazeera English - Focus - Pakistani Army's '$20Bn' Business : "As legislators in Pakistan go to the polls against a backdrop of political protests and religious militancy, a recent book on the Pakistani military has thrown light on the army's role in private enterprise. "

NPR : John Hope Franklin Puts a 'Mirror to America' : "All Things Considered, October 30, 2005 · Historian John Hope Franklin has spent much of his life -- 90 years, so far -- investigating the legacy of slavery in America."

Banning Desmond Tutu - City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul) : "But in a move that still has faculty members shaking their heads in disbelief, St. Thomas administrators—concerned that Tutu's appearance might offend local Jews—told organizers that a visit from the archbishop was out of the question. 'We had heard some things he said that some people judged to be anti-Semitic and against Israeli policy,' says Doug Hennes, St. Thomas's vice president for university and government relations. 'We're not saying he's anti-Semitic. But he's compared the state of Israel to Hitler and our feeling was that making moral equivalencies like that are hurtful to some members of the Jewish community.'"

Venezuela Responds to US Secretary of Defense | venezuelanalysis.com : "Responding to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said that Hugo Chavez is a 'threat to regional stability,' Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Rodriguez affirmed that Hugo Chavez is indeed a 'tremendous threat' to the 'empires of the world,' and assured they would continue to be a 'greater threat' as time goes on. Responding to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said that Hugo Chavez is a 'threat to regional stability,' Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Rodriguez affirmed that Hugo Chavez is indeed a 'tremendous threat' to the 'empires of the world,' and assured they would continue to be a 'greater threat' as time goes on. "

blackagendareport.com - White Man’s Wars, Past and Present : "Racism is the engine that makes the rich man's world go ‘round. Majorities of white people of all classes identify with their moneyed-brethren, and can be counted on to rally to the racist banner. Such is the case with the U.S. offensive in the Middle East, and the villlianization of Muslims in general. 'Eternal war' is now American policy, but it is a war that has gone on without end for half a millennium, since the Europeans 'discovered' new regions for rape and pillage in 1492. They have since described their march of death as the spread of 'civilization.' Tell that to the 95 percent of indigenous Americans who died when the Europeans arrived, or the tens of millions of Africans whose societies were totally destroyed by the slave trade. And tell it to the one million Iraqis who have perished in the current war. Racism is the engine that makes the rich man's world go ‘round. Majorities ...

Jon Wiener: Who Wants To Bomb Iran? Democrats, Not Republicans, Says Seymour Hersh - Off The Bus on The Huffington Post : "When I asked Hersh who wants to bomb Iran, he said, 'Ironically there is a lot of pressure coming from Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Edwards have all said we cannot have a nuclear-armed Iran. Clearly the pressure from Democrats is a reflection of - we might as well say it - Israeli and Jewish input.' He added the obvious: 'a lot of money comes to the Democratic campaigns' from Jewish contributors."